Alternate cover
I’m really excited to be bringing this story public. Finally. It’s been sitting on my hard-drive since late 2013 and has gone through a lot of changes. It has some of my personal favourite characters I’ve managed to create and the story should be there to match them. I even had an inspiration to make a cover for it. I hope you all give it a try.
As you can see from the cover this is the first book in a trilogy. The second part has been sitting on my hard-drive since 2014, essentially completed. It’s just waiting for me to get to editing it. And finishing posting the first part, of course. The third part is about two thirds of the way done so plenty of time to finish it before the first two parts are all posted.
Anyway, here’s a short blurb about the story before you jump in:
“In a world where visiting alternate worlds is the new, illegal, extreme sport, an ordinary accountant finds his life taking a turn for the dark. Escaping his guilt into a medieval world he realizes there are no easy choices to make. There are no heroes or villains. Only those who are unlucky and abused.”
And here’s the usual PDF link: Alternate
Also available on Wattpad: Alternate
If you don’t know what Wattpad is, it’s a site for story writers. They’ve got a decent mobile app so if reading on your phone/tablet is your thing that’s a decent way to go.
Seeing as the story is complete and edited I’ll probably be posting a new chapter every Sunday, barring any hangovers or other bouts of laziness 😀
So it has been a long time since I posted anything new. In the case of The Pale Rose it has been about three months, which is a fair bit of time. I’d like to say I decided to keep a summer vacation from posting, but that’s not really what happened. I simply got distracted.
I got an idea for a novel that I just couldn’t leave alone. I had to write it. So that’s what I did. Initially I wrote it at the same time as I continued on The Pale Rose, but towards the end I worked solely on that piece. I even started writing it with the thought I might try and get it published, but that’s an idea I’ve since given up on. Getting published just seems to involve a lot of work that I’m not willing to do. I’d rather spend my time writing stories instead of letters to agents and what have you.
In any case, the first novel of that idea is now done. At least the first draft is. At 78k words, it’s a decent start to what will be a trilogy and I’m going to say I think it’s some of the best writing I’ve done so far. It’s completely separate from the world of Balaria, something entirely new. I’m excited to share it with all of you once I get the thing edited to an acceptable level and maybe had someone beta read it. For now, I’ll just leave you with this teaser:
Alternate cover
Now, about The Pale Rose. I’m just about done completing it and there are plenty of chapters to post. I just posted chapter 10 on here and that leaves me with 18 ready chapters to go. The plan is to go back to the chapter every Sunday schedule and I hope to keep that up. Now that I have the first bit of that obsession story out of me I’ll hopefully have time to do some short stories as well. Plenty of ideas floating around my head for those.
I’m sorry about the long silence, but at the same time I’m excited to get to posting again. I hope I haven’t lost all my readers to this break 🙂
So let’s just put some links at the end to remind you: